I'm trying to figure out how to create personalized urls for double-byte languages. For example, this url from Amazon Japan has Japanese characters within the querystring (specifically, the path): http://www.amazon.co.jp/風の谷のナウシカ-DVD-宮崎駿/dp/B00005R5J3/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269891925&sr=8-3 What I would like to do ...
From your experience, what is the most accurate open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library/software to read Japanese text? I just tried nhocr, its mistake rate is over 2% even on an extremely clean high-definition document. Keywords: kanji, hiragana, katakana, scan, recognize, 光学式文字読取り装置, 光学的文字認識 ...
I'm thinking of one day moving to Japan and I was wondering if anyone here has any experience working there. I'm curious as to what languages/technology are popular there for web development and software development. I have heard Ruby is/was strong there due to its founder being Japanese. What would you recommend someone focus on if t...
Hi everyone, Is it possible to write a GUI in Java that would display Japanese fonts correctly regardless of the language settings of the OS it's being run on? I'd like to write a program which is able to do this but I'm not sure how to start going about this. Any advice would be a huge help! ...
I am developing an online CJK character dictionary application, and already found the following databases: Unicode Unihan Database Jim Breen's JMDict and KanjiDic CEDict HanDeDict As I am looking for more data, web searches often lead me to online dictionaries, but not the data itself, using the same sources over again. If you know ...
Hi all, I'm currently looking at developing a small client that has the ability to read text to speech in a variety of languages. Mainly targeting English & Japanese. So my question is, does anyone know of a library that is capable of reading English and Japanese to speech? My target development language initially, is c# Thanks for...
Can you point me tool to convert japanese characters to unicode? ...
I want to have different process for English word and Japanese word in this function function process_word($word) { if($word is english) { ///////// }else if($word is japanese) { //////// } } thank you ...
I am about to start to make a cookie with Unicode value (Japanese characters) is there any problem with Unicode Cookie value? in IE 7 IE 8 Firefox, Safari, Chrome? Thank you ...
I'm currently trying to write a simple script that looks in a folder, and returns a list of all the file names in an RSS feed. However I've hit a major wall... Whenever I try to read filenames with Japanese characters in them, it shows them as ?'s. I've tried the solutions mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/482342/php-rea...
I just setup PortablePython on my system, so I can run python scripts from PHP and I got some very basic code (Below) to list all the files in a directory, however it doesn't work with Japanese filenames. It works fine with English filenames, but it spits out errors (Below) when I put any file containing Japanese characters in the direct...
I've been working on a python script to open up a file with a unicode name (Japanese mostly) and save to a randomly generated (Non-unicode) filename in Windows Vista 64-bit, and I'm having issues... It just doesn't work, it works fine with non-unicode filenames (Even if it has unicode content), but the second you try to pass a unicode fi...
Hi, I have a little strange problem. I am working on a java web start application(using swing) which paints a particular image on the (canvas)JPanel. Some of the placeholders on it have some non ASCII characters as their text. Now when that image is being painted on the canvas, the canvas shows '[]' as if it is unable to recognize...
The URLs exhibiting this behavior is here: http://culturewithinaculture.org/introduction.php http://culturewithinaculture.org/about.php user: cwac pass: cwac2112 The site has not been launched officially. But my problem is on the right side, Japanese copy. I have my document type set to UTF-8 which is what I thought it should be. On...
Hello, I am trying to use PHP to scrape some japanese text off a site and insert it in to a sqlite or MySQL DB. The first problem I am running in to is actually getting the regex to pull the line of text I need from the site: <h3><b>タイトル</b> : I_want_this_text</h3> The text I want (I_want_this_text) is in japanese of course. The...
I am creating a report with Japanese characters and the characters show in iReport correctly but when using the PDF exporter the Japanese characters are invisible. I simply want to use the MS Mincho font in the PDF report or the standard PDF Japanese font but have no idea how to configure. I know there is a similar question on Stack ove...
I'm using NSString that is a combination of "japanese" and "english" characters. All are two byte (multi byte) characters. From a webservice I'm receiving a string that is also a combination of "japanese" and "english" characters, but as far as I know english characters in that string are one byte characters. I want to compare my string ...
Hi, I need some advice on css and styles, is not an easy question to ask, I'm on the way to develop a project that's going to be in a few languages, I know how to manage the dictionaries, at least for now, but I was with a bigger issue ... The page it's going to be on english, and also japanese and hebrew, they have a different style l...
I am supporting other languages in my game for its next release and would like to support Japanese. The issue I have is a I do all of my own font and bitmap rendering internal in the engine, I do support the full extended ASCII 0-256 character map with all of the special accents, so all roman based languages work fine. But with Japanes...
We are creating a site that uses both Japanese and English. We want to get away from the default Japanese fonts which can't use ClearType. Is there a way to tell the browser to use a different Japanese font JUST for Japanese characters (Like Meiryo) and another font just for latin characters (Like Helvetica) on the same page? We don't wa...